Four houses collapsed last Saturday night, near the La María creek, in Itagüí, due to the rains that were recorded, reported Bernardo Mejía, Undersecretary of Risk Management of the municipality.
The emergency occurred exactly at the height of the Pilsen and Villa Lía neighborhoods, but There were no people affected because the families had been evacuated in days past due to the risk they were running.
Mejía added that people are receiving a monthly rental subsidy until the works being carried out in the sector are finished and that They include retaining walls, riprap and cleaning of the creek.
“In this sector, mitigation works are being carried out with a 63-meter-long retaining wall and 21 pylons, each 10 meters deep, in order to avoid future damages,” the municipal administration reported.
They also called on the community to take into account the alerts of the risk management authorities or the signals given by the ravine.
“In this sector, mitigation works are being carried out with a 63-meter-long retaining wall and 21 pylons, each 10 meters deep, in order to avoid future damages,” the municipal administration reported.
They also called on the community to take into account the alerts from the risk management authorities or the signs given by the ravine.
Meanwhile, complaints persist in the Rodeo Alto sector, in Belén, district 16 of Medellín, because the fall of the wall of the Atavanza building It has generated road chaos and a significant accumulation of garbage that has affected residents of the entire sector.
Given the complaints and discomfort expressed on social networks, the Government Secretary, María Camila Villamizar, explained that they installed a Unified Command Post (PMU) in the area so that the Dagrd maintains the monitoring of the actions of Covin, the construction company of the affected residential unit. She also claimed that Emvarias increased the frequency of garbage collection from two to three days a week, with special route for Rodeo Alto.
